Comment by JoshTriplett
1 day ago
> or command line tool (like curl)
Even if you interpreted the bet generously to allow for a browser to render the content using JavaScript, if I understand the bet correctly, the condition of working with a command-line tool like curl would fail.
I read the or's as giving alternatives, only one of which needs to work.
I can see how other interpretations are possible, but I don't see anything especially generous about mine. I'm not "allowing" anything: To make a judgement you have to pick a web browser to try it with, and you'd probably pick the most popular one, in the most popular configuration, that seems the most fair. If that web browser happens to execute Javascript when you navigate to an URL, then that's just how it is.
It says that the browser must download "an HTML document that still contains the following text". I can see how either interpretation could work, but I would interpret "contains" as "the text is in the HTML document", not "rendering the HTML document in a JavaScript-capable browser displays the text".
(Though, that said, some approaches to rendering sites via JavaScript would still have that text in the initially downloaded HTML file as JavaScript data.)
As for the "or", I read it as "doing either X or Y must", not "either X must or Y must (not necessarily both)", but yeah, I can see either interpretation being valid.
That's a secondary ("OR") condition, used if the browser condition isn't satisfied.